All right so what’s good what’s good what’s good it’s your host Aaron blue Mr New Wave himself graduate of Alabama an University and yes I am an initiate of grandi chapter of cap alide in Fraternity Incorporated and today we have a new HBCU throwback series that we
Will be talking about where we will be going back in the day of HBCU life back in the 90s so today we do have our special guest uh we got some brothers of cap alasar from prayview uh Z beta chapter spring 96 so you know we FNA go
Ahead you know get right into it but before we get into you know this this this podcast we got a video to show you of how they used to do it back in the day Hey hey hey Hey yeah pick it up pick it up hurry up pick it up pick it up so as you can see as we see we had what was that a limo two limos two yeah the second limo didn’t chance to do all that right because the first
Limo they burned up all the time but we were the first we were the first we were the first of fraternity to do that a snap get the limo listen we kept out side you know we the first to do everything on y we gota take show stop
Us just like that I like it I like it I like it so BR brother star brother star hold on no brother star you’re muted right now this how excited I am but uh the corner fras and wheel I’m G to take this paint brush shot and paint
This picture for you a university exist since 1876 and at best everybody just walks out there in the middle of a quad area for a probate but thank goodness our big brothers gave us enough uh freedom and levity to throw Bounce Around ideas and when we thought about it we said we want
To do something different that he never seen on the yard so imagine us rolling up police escort fire truck limos music blasting out the thing and they part of the Red Sea Force and and from that day every other organization on that campus tried to duplicate that to the point to
Where it became such cumbersome over the next few years that they eventually forced out probates inside the baby dome but we was the first spring 96 anal yes sir yes sir I love it I love it I love it man most definitely most definitely so basic like so what I’m
Hearing is like I said so we y’all the real Show Stoppers on campus back in back then yes sir oh yeah yeah yeah yeah we was we was we came in unique because we all from majority and the most of us we came in ambitious Uh Hungry we wanted
To make an impression and leave our mark on the yard and you know what’s unique to us is that many of us been waiting been waiting for four years to for the that opportunity so we weren’t gonna waste it yeah oh man that’s dedication
Man I love to hear that man you said man some of y’all really kind of waited four years for you know for that opportunity and everything man that’s real love and let me ask before we kind of get into you know the real questions U were y’all were yall above ground back
Then what he said when I ask above ground I mean you know you know was y’all like above you know to where you know once y actually cross you know the Sands and y’all was actually actual NES where y’all above ground being the brothers of cap alasa
And leading the fraternity to the you know to the light that that that taught us to do yes oh yeah oh yeah when we came in when we came in our our our line pretty much put an imprint into the entire uh University we had the SGA president vice president Treasurer head
Of uh the Cal which is the uh campus board members was all spring 96 Zeta beta and pretty much anything and everything on that yard we had a hand in all of it also one of our line Brothers after we crossed was Grand strategus yese okay oh so we’ve
Been don’t forget about Mr priew oh yeah preview also two or three of two or three of our line Brothers Mr preview two of them she and I was a riging mascot for three years running sir okay so let me ask are all y’all from um are all y’all from
Texas I am yep yes forward okay so everybody so let me ask so I guess this is a easy question how was it kind of getting to prayer viiew well for me man real quick when I was in high school I was always about
Art and but I got to a point where I was over school I wasn’t even trying to go to go go to college and I was getting off of art scholarships but I just wasn’t feeling I was just ready to be done until I went to the Battle of bands
At the C bow and saw these two black universities going at it and when I saw priew it was it was over because I’m coming from pedom white high school and see these two black universities go at it where everything’s black all black black on black on black it was it was it
Was life changing so I I it was a rap I’m going to perview most definitely most definitely most definitely and was that kind of like for the rest of you fellas more so of you know um because it because it was kind of you know close and everything because I
Knew for me it’s more academic side preview was and is one of the uh producers of black engineers in Texas number one and and also in the nation so for me was more academic purposes I wanted that to go there for the engineering program just so happen the N
Also so it made it better yeah I co-signed that with you I had scholarships to go to other places but I most of those were out of state and then when I realized did my research on prayview being highly ranked for as black engineers and being well renowned
For our nursing programs I just said hey you know what I need to go to that school electrical engineering call and I was like this where I need to be okay okay I was an engineering major as well um but I had another reason I was a band member in high school and
Just like will said going to the cotton bow I fell in love with the storm and I had to get in there so yeah no almost definely okay a that’s dope man that’s dope so let me go ahead and ask this another question so how was actually like you know the campus life
In the 90s you know the atmosphere the style the yard the Cal you know kind of how how was that that that Vibe you know you want to take this one yeah it was just like honestly it was just like a different world seriously we we it was
So many things that I wasn’t accustomed to to see first and foremost like we all there for the same reason to better our lives and and and leave that that that campus with higher education and when we on think it what Thursdays no Wednesday hum day in front of the Student Center
Everybody kicking it you have the DJ they would set the DJ up sometimes in front of the cafeteria which was Alumni Hall turn to a big party and so that was your chance to not only you know go out and have a good time but then also you
Know flex your fashion because there became a little Min fashion show at done and then of course when it came to you know game time for football and basketball the Vib engine was ridiculous and that all led up to homecoming oh my God it it was it it was just something
That was completely uh just like this like the show D for world you you never know what you got every day he is definitely right on that uh in contrast to what they have now the current students they have apartment style living when will and I were there
Everything was kind of separated guys on one side of the campus the ladies on one side of the campus we really didn’t have apartment with visit so a lot of times it made you have to figure out things to Fellowship because it wasn’t any cable there wasn’t a lot of the amenities so
We would always be in the quad area be out there in front of the um cafeteria be in front of the MSC and this became the Gathering Spot so it was always something jumping it was always a fashion show as he said we had the fountain working then um and as weather
Changed you might have events like imagine four or five th000 students having a big water balloon fight during springtime or the winter time it might be if it Happ to snow you might be folks out there gaing up for those kind of events and it get tactical and it’s
Aggressive and it’s fun at the same time like man this is what I dreamed the school would be just like will said with in regards to being like a different world I saw the TV show now I’m living it this is better than healing because when you walk at prayer viiew and you
See that and you walk up on the yard and you see the hill it’s not that hard to get impressed by the amount of land and and the Building architecture that that let you know okay somebody earned this somebody who looks like us built this years ago and they built the Legacy so
They’re thoroughly impressive right for me I uh if I compareed it to because I went to pwi my first year then transferred into preview the the lifestyle change your lifestyle for preview is unmatched like you said uh professors looked out for us they want us to seeed they they pushed us but you
Know that life there just it was always there to back us and and I loved it I’m I’m glad I transferred in and I’m glad I graduated from HBCU I was forunate the youngest of of all of us right and so I got to live this experience for four years basically
Um yeah imagine waking up every day and feeling almost like a superhero I mean because everybody knows you you don’t know them but they know you right so you walking out shaking hands kissing babies you know they present or something it was a wonderful experience you know and you
Know I walk around with no money but I didn’t have I didn’t have a need for anything right it was like you know getting love from the people I’ll go into the cafeteria didn’t have no money but I’ll walk away with some food some kind of way so yeah it was it was
Wonderful and we used to also look forward to when the band would practiced like that become a whole another situation it be like a black party because everybody would come Park their cars uh near the uh band practice field and you know you watching the band practice and everybody just basically
It’s like like like a a block party and that was in you know Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday so it’s like you know you we was at we was in this space where we were all together but we was we was isolated from like where where we were
Based at prayview uh compared to maybe like you know some of the University that’s in the city so we all became a big family because we would see each other on a regular basis because we lived out there we didn’t a lot of us didn’t commute you know have off campus
Apartment so like d star said we had to share our dorm you know for guys it was three to a room and we shared I bath them with three other guys and so sweet yeah yeah six six guys and one bathroom do the ma that’s Community bathroom ain’t
It you see Community ones that’s not a community and now these freshman are walking into a basically apartments two two in apartment one shared bathroom you’re like come on man they have no struggle none of the situation that we had but uh it made us Bond I was going
To point out too even organizationally uh because a lot of us were cool with other people who join other organizations absolutely during our time period we were so RAR respected and like we never had a physical altercation with anybody on our campus I mean they respected the fact how we just
Suddenly were were in every position but at the same time we stayed so cool with with people we never had to worry about conflict so again experience there’s nothing like that you can go on your car on your yard and just kick it with anybody if you’re hungry man I got
Something over here what you got let’s put it together hey and spur the moment let’s just get together some let’s go to the store let’s bring some food back we’ll go to somebody’s apartment get the cooking so yeah it’s nothing like that yeah man that’s pretty cool man it’s
Pretty dope and I about to say that’s um I actually had that experience as well when I actually went at and them but I will say once Co kind of hit that that everything Gonna Change you know and I hate it for the ones kind of you
Know that’s at school now because they don’t you know I know I didn’t go to school when you guys back in I know y’all had a way different you know experience y’all have y’all had freaky back then you know y y’all was good y’all was good so yes sir I hate it for
Them now because I don’t I don’t see them kind of gaining that that bun that family with again other organizations as well as you know this person is a stranger this person a stranger but because we see where we all wear the same logo you know you family you know
Right and it was really it was you could really feel it and see it when we go to other universities one of the when when it’s pray regards what organization you may be a part of the one thing that we all shared is that we was some prayview
So when we would be in a space like over uh& M for the uh Greek Olympiad and they play us they play something that was uh that pray you at a baby D party with would turn up for oh we would shut it down priew would shut it down and we we
Known for for some line dancers boy like we go to campuses and shut it down so you would see and it’ be crazy too because you would see q’s and alphas and sigas and cap AKs and Deltas together doing this line dance and we weren’t separate you know you might go to your
Perspective organization you know you know when they do after the intermission but if they playing something that we know at prayview we get we get crun with we all together and we doing it no that’s cool man no most definitely most definitely that’s cool so let me go
Ahead and try to try to tack into you know a a little more touchy topic that we can you know it’s safe space for all of us right Brothers we all we all talking right yes sir what up Dam what up dmox I saw you what’s up D Deuce what’s up
Deuce so even though um I understand you know cap alide is a non haast fraternity you know uh let me ask how was it joining you know um cap alide back in the 90s it was hard but it was fair there you go there you simple hard but it’s fair s
But it was true most definitely most definitely that’s answer we gonna all put in right there well uh okay I I I definitely like JT’s answer but I would say this the difference of the the realest time period after we crossed we were definitely a more physical chapter we
Would go places and you might see us and our black with our shirts off and our boots on it was a lot of brothers being smooth that wasn’t the zoo back then we didn’t represent like that and wherever we went to whether it’s Texas Louisiana Mississippi and even when we went down
To Florida they knew what was different and when we encountered other chapters that say maybe the processes weren quite the same we still got love for folks you because we all in the same organization but at the same time we also experienced the other side when chapter who may have
Uh been on the same motivational side of how they their process was and how we got treated as far as the hospitality the love M we in Florida and the brothers IMM meally uh it was around the time of the L they saw us we started wrestling in front of the frat house
Next thing you know Brothers is offering us limos and just just Fellowship food uh I mean it was just amazing time but we had set that DEC because real chapters recognize real chapters and and for the other ones that didn’t they stayed at a distance but the ones that
Was like us we immediately knew so I’ll shout out to them guys we met down in fam you too uh joining cap I sou fratority Incorporated in particular Zeta bet was was not simple uh we put some work and some time in uh make that happen uh it’s
It’s completely different now because uh when I tell you we invested time I mean we the time uh which was a good thing because it required the brothers to get to know us as much as we wanted to get to know them and it weeded out those who
Thought that they had an idea about what it meant to be a cppa versus what it what it really means when you actually on the other side of it and so uh the process man was something to be said you know we we was the thing about prayview
Again being in this community amongst each other you you have to make sure that you know you picking quality over quantity and you have to be make you had to make sure now your freshman year you got to pass you know you attend various different organizations events and
Whatnot but coming out your freshman you’re going into your sophomore you should be very clear about where you’re going because if not that will come back and bite you in your ass later on so once it’s established it’s been said this is what you’re going to do you best
Believe all eyes on you at that point and you know and it changing you you you really changeed because for me seeing the brothers that was on the yard at the time and man how they would looked at how people would just basically just lose their mind you know when they came
Around the events that the party they threw uh man at zi is this spot called zippies used to be so live and then you know they the they they the king of the mics so when they jumped on the mic you know you like man that’s gonna be me one
Day and you just get hyped and so uh the had that opportunity to be possibly a part of something that you saw was great and then even then later on to even learn more so about the work that they do in the community and then the history
Of it it was just like yeah I got I got to get into this and and Zeta beta did something that was very unique to what no other chapter I’ve I’ve come across have done you know and that was the creative process that lets you say do
Y’all know how to run a business DBA shout out DBA a so so so that alone you know let you know that these brothers all you know know how to kick it but they also know about how to make business happen and we became if not I believe one of the uh
Most the financial one of the profitable organizations on on the campus of prie when you when when your chapter cutting checks and making donations it’s like oh okay that comes with a little certain resp ECT and man we we we had it in us to be uh the the best representation of
Zeta beta that we could be and that again didn’t come because something that we saw on social media because we have a luure of that and that and it was nothing we had overnight we paid our dudes and waited four years waited okay he’s still being too modest
He’s still being too modest what he said was so right the ability to the necessary the fact that we had to wait seven of us being older ones off our line had to wait it built up a burning desire I mean we was on fire saying when I get my chance boy they
Ain’t gonna stop when I get my chance I’mma do this when I get my chance and when it hit the next day literally like he was talking about our events on on campus were so outrageous that they had to change policies on how they started stamp stuff because we were running
Parties so hard off campus that it started being just an overflow from the campus events that’s what spring 96 did and we took that same mindset to the next level so by the time the Kappa came rather than just be bystanders who just go there and see other brothers and say
What’s up my line got together and had a serious debate amongst ourselves to sit and say hey why don’t we throw an event in Houston and after heated debate and heated discussion we decided to go ahead and be fearless and to host this event
And it was just us as a lion and our chapter was no other chapters involved so we did the Brown Convention Center and the Astrodome Arena backto back years in htown we showed other brothers from all across the world that when they came to Houston now you have an event to
Go to rather than just walk around on the seaw wall and galon they would come to our parties and legit we ran we say we ran it like a business and we were successful for those years to show the courtesy when they came to Houston They
Al that’s how they also knew us so when they hit that they like wait a minute bro doing it like this eight 10 thousand people at a party at a college party one chapter so I’m g go and pop my collar cuz I ain’t shame I’m I’m tired tired of
Being modest with y’all we’ve been doing this thing big everything we did on y’all was big and they need to hear it can I take it back this can I take it back to the interest meeting yes so you know how Darius loged in five minutes
Late if you showed up to the entrance late you’ll be locked out the door oh yeah I didn’t know and not dress right yeah you gota be you gotta be dressed your your grades got to be on point resume on point like and if you don’t
Show up on time you’re out of there so there’s a lot of sad faces with other other uh other paraphernalia on these days they don’t have what we have and yeah they got locked out the doors it’s pretty sad but he you know blue also be
Also be mindful of the fact that we had to watch a lot of our friends crossover in other organizations and we were just like man when is I turn and I I would tell you when it really got something serious came uh something serious for me is when
Uh the Deltas brought their line over a beta’s Most Wanted oh yeah man that was a line unlike any Delta line I had ever seen and because they were so fly and they were so dope and we knew them we all came in together so we sitting
Waiting on not you know waiting not her and you know not only did you have again like I said throughout the year you know the nukes doing what they do but it all came full circle com spring when you had two of the biggest Kappa related events
Go down you had the Greek oad at Texas andm that step show was off the chain that was put on by the brothers up there at new Alpha and then of course you had the Kappa B party in G and if you was a Capper at that time man you got listen
Look for the uul that’s all I said look for the U-Haul so so so with each year that pass we like man that’s gonna be us I can’t wait I cannot wait cause you knew what came with when they say membership has its privileges it really
Do because the things that that that was you know going on at that time like I said from the from the beach part to the Greek Olympia and other things black leadership conference man I I just couldn’t I already knew my fi was filled I knew what I
Wanted we had so many ideas literally again it’s such I don’t think folks really get how you have to look at a distance with binoculars like knowing this this supposed to be your time and for whatever reason it doesn’t happen then you come back and humble yourself and
The fire and hunger you have to have today make that approach I we talk about popping it and other stuff we had the social events but from that money we made we gave our scholarships started up The Miss Crimson the cream pageant we gave money to local students in himad
And Waller who never probably would have got the money to go 10 pray interview we were giving our money when we had our social events even as a college chapter we talking about tuxedoed up ice sculptures uh four five chefs buffet style doing it up for the BR as well as
For uh uh any dignitaries we had that we had brought in so literally we keep talking about it it wasn’t just about I’m just gonna shine and and and we definitely didn’t throw no uh wasn’t shiman it was about Focus every one of the brothers was so intelligent so smart
They they all lived out the very objective of being achievement in every field of human endeavor every one of my Lon Brothers is just amazing and doing stuff but then we still have fun how you gonna stop us how you gonna stop that you better sitting theide and getting
Mad drink your drinking be keep hating us we don’t keep doing it every time a n walk through I promise you man you not a noob you already to know how they faces gonna look every time you know I’m glad you actually said you know um
You know you kind of hit how y’all had fun you know as well as y got down the business so let me ask about Life After College as far as you know um you know with your guys degrees you know is y’all kind of you know tack into that how was
It I think everybody on our line exceeded excelled in in their fields um we have members on our line that engineer Majors business majors entrepreneurs um we have uh one of our one of our lineb who’s a a level two partner for one of the largest consulant
Companies in the world uh you have demarus who’s a great artist in his right Wills a big entrepreneur I mean iined everybody I lined from the ace to the tail is doing great things in their in their fields that’s why I love this line so much these guys are amazing
Every one of themag right how they say Emy war with it Emy war with po it for po it for Emy two time in me war win it give give it to yeah Alo yeah I mean this line my line is one the amazing lines that ever come through z or any
Any line that come through capar I put that I put my line as anybody I will say this I will say this you know when you when you’re gr through the process you know at the time you not you may not understand it but in post post College uh there you go through
Another process it’s called life and when you go through that process with the individuals that you went through with in uh in undergrad and then postgraduation man now you see what it’s all about because there’s been you know some real life uh moments where you’ve been basically Haze and it’s been
Moments for myself personally where I’ve experienced you know some some some highs and some lows and my L brothers that came through big time and um and so you when someone questions about had you know why did you go why did you do this or why you do that or their assumption
Based on what they think they saw I mean what they heard it’s for this reason because I know this person this person has uh you know throughing our process had had my back uh bump for me and it bump for me in in in real life you know
And so at the end of the day you know uh uh I’m proud of all my LS because we all are unique like it’s crazy CU we’re also as 25 of us we’re still all accounted for thank you Jesus and we still are very involved with each other like it’s
Like you know some cats may not meet I mean may not Tau their lbs in years man we in a group te going in at each other like we still on the yard and so so you know that’s the beauty of what also I would like to say that I think the big
Brothers did for us which was they created uh a line that was so connected that that connection could not be broken won’t be broken and uh we still move as if we still undergrass on the yard like we get excited and hype about thinking doing things that are out of the box and
That’s what Zeta beta has always done we’ve always thought outside the box so when we so during the covid and the I mean during the pandemic when we stuck in the house we still managed to find a way to still give back and we raised money
In a house party in our houses via Zoom online to raise enough money to buy these bubblers that could be used in emergency rooms to prevent the spreading of covid and so and that’s just something again that thinking outside the box is what you know we all have
Done we was a unique line that was selected and chosen for a reason we came in as already individuals so we wasn’t looking for something to make us because we were already made from like I said SJ president vice president treasure Mr the prayview manager like we was all about
What we what we set out to do but we also had something that I feel like is so much needed and necessary now is that we had a passion that we wanted to be a part of this because we had a vision of what it is that we want to do to leave
Our Mark and and if we would have had social media oh it would have been over because if we would have took it to a whole another level as well but you know I think now you know as as I’ve learned to do I learned to adapt to the change
Of of what it is you know to represent now but I’m still in a certain space where I believe there some old school values that need to be implemented to make sure that once you graduate you know you understand why you went through that process because you’re gonna be pledging again in real
Life and and I want to follow you too we talk about out the box how many examples of being out the box we have think about this a university existed since 187 76 and on the Sid of certain areas that was fields and Hills it wasn’t until a
Homecoming that our line got together decided to say no one’s using this whole area over here let’s bring in a stage let’s bring in professional lighting let’s bring in multiple DJs and let’s make it a whole event so even Beyond and this was before the stadium was built
Literally on that side when we showed a vision showed the campus that that area had uh potential because literally we had a concert that we threw to hosted as a CH us then the chapter on the side it was so positive and and and had so much
Foot foot traffic that the next year the university took it and said wait a minute we’re gonna claim that as a as a secondary concert area but once again spring 96 coming with ideas out the box to produce good uh results I’m like now God dog it how many times we’ll keep
Shying diamonds in your face and folks like hey oh man I love it and to Will’s Point too at this at this level after we uh all graduated I don’t have to ask anybody else for feedback I can always ask my brothers they all are so intelligent
They’re all in different fields of of just life from whether it’s doctors whether it’s lawyers whether it’s money management whether it’s other Engineers there’s not a question I can’t come to either one of them about that’s what the bond is about actually I actually love you know
How y’all kind of talk about you know how you guys were the bun made y’all so close-nit to where it didn’t just stop you know in college like it was there and you know it kept on going through life so really my next question and this is another you know touchy topic that
You know um is it’s out here you know in this in in out here and I’m just g go ahead and start beating around a bush about it but how do you guys feel about um people joining you know an organization we’re g to say a fraternity or we gonna talk about fraternity
Because you know we gonna keep with the Fret join the organization and actually uh being a person that finished the process and a person that doesn’t touch the process because a lot a lot of what you guys are saying and I don’t think that you know I I can I hear you
Guys you know because again I I I went through that process so I understand but a lot of thing a lot of what y’all are saying is that process say bunded y’all together to where if y’all didn’t go through you know what y’all went through when y’all was going through
It you know like life wouldn’t been you know as clear as y’all see it today so that process actually kind of taught y’ a lot of light set lessons that y’all still use to this day so that’s why I want to ask y’all you know like I said
Let me clear clear it up right quick so how do y’all feel about again a person you know joining joining and completing the process and you know not okay let me say this let me start out let me say this right here I personally feel that every line
Needs something to gize them with I’m not saying physically touch anything there a ha anything but every line or every you’re getting X number of people together who really not really know each other all together and you don’t have them form together like we say one body
One mind we are one body with 25 moving parts that’s that’s that’s who spring 96 is so you need something to that those people those individuals can be gavanized to come together against I think with that that would give them the ability to bond together when you have you give them something to
Move forward to you don’t have to be anything about ha have to be by Pleasure but they need something that they can work together with and strive to achieve as one that will bring them that will gize them together that will give them the bond they need to go through life
Together that’s my opinion on it brother Boswell that’s big that’s big out out of been even being in in in Kappa for four years but I’ve been around my whole life that’s probably the most safe quit answer I’ve ever heard together that’s good yeah but but
You when you think about it that’s what you need you need something that that those individuals can work together to have a goal in mind to achieve they need to they need to make that happen that would give them the B need that’s what we did we had different obstacles that
We had to overcome as a line and we did and that gavanized us together some of us knew each other some of us didn’t right but when everything is said and done at this day at this day in my life I get a call from any one of my line
Brothers I got what I’m doing get there to he me immediately right now in the DFW are we have about 12 or of us here that we still hang out together quite a bit we have another huge number of us in Houston then we have a Sprinkle of our
Brothers some in New York some in California some uh some deployed some overseas in Tokyo so we as a line keep keep a hold of each other keep each of us accountable for each other so that if something going on in in our brothers lives we are there to help them okay
Okay we also I think what’s also necessary is um you know there has to be a a screening process within the process meaning that like I said we didn’t just you know show to the interest meeting a lot of us that paid our dues uh getting in getting
Involved with with the frag with members that were uh telling us about things that they had coming up so we can also see how things work but then more importantly that gave them a chance to see and know who we were so then at the end of the day when that opportunity
Came it was without question you know you bringing in somebody because when the process start it’s not what you know back then people thought that you know pled was like school days I wish the hell we would have squeezed the banana and toilet that would been so easy that was
Just that’s that’s where the the last started and then you there was a book called a book called in the name of brotherhood like we was trying to get our hands on in and all things that could put us in the the mindset of what’s going to be like nothing like
Nobody written was nothing like no movie it was like oh and so when you’ve been put through these things and you got somebody who who jumps in for you you know uh that Les you know that this person is is going to have your back because keep in mind I’m being brought
Into a space where I’m told I have to make a bond with 24 people that I I didn’t grow up with and when you constantly being pushed in different things you know you you GNA click in some for at some point trust and believe I think we all have at one point dropped
I know I did I know the night that I dropped I was like hell with this I’m going home going back to Ford look y going come up brother who said now come on will it’s greater later that’s all we had we had to keep hearing is that it’s greater
Later keep you going fast forward 2021 uh I’m sorry 2022 my mom was uh losing our house because the new land owners new Property Owners decided they were gonna tear down the house to build a school I didn’t know what to do you know this is my childhood home we’ve
Been there for my mom had lived there for 37 years and so that was a really dark time and one of the things that that we was trying to do was to raise money to be able to relocate her and um my lb Mundo showed up with an envelope
And he said this from the lbs man like it’s moments like that that without a question the reason why like I said I will joining this fraternity was one of the most amazing things that could have ever happened in my life so I’m always hold it down I’m always rep
For it but the process created that moment and that opportunity happen because like I said life happens and you thinking in front in the moment of process like man I’m ready for this to be over with but when you like when things happen in in post life and you
Like man I’m ready for this to be oh wa you know you got your lb’s account that’s because they showed you who they were when you was in the process and that’s that’s what I think needs to always be in place social media yeah it’s great you know shout out to
The cat that that throw the BS and shimmy and all that but we do more and that process also shows that we’re about more so yeah and I look at it uh too processes are are there for a reason to help bring out so many things you don’t make a
Great piece of artwork in Pottery without going it through several levels of processes whether it’s the water and saturation mix there’s the Heat and the glaze you utilize work to to work things out smooth regular the way you want to to to to bring out the best of whatever
That artist is seeing if you’re making steel it goes through all this pressure and heat intensity to work out the imperi is to bring about the the the best result the most solid structure and the most functional structure when for our interviews if you’ve ever been in an interview process
Where there are literally 10 guys looking at you that aren’t being nice to you necessarily in that moment and there is some heat in implied Behind these questions about what will you do if you get a chance to join my organization and how and can I trust you to keep it in
Your hands to do right by it imagine you go to a regular work interview for a job you are laughing to yourself silly like this is nothing there’s no challenge you’re not looking at now I’ve been at interviews for work and it’s two or three people and just and I’m just
Laughing like you don’t even understand what a what a hard interview is you have no idea I’m laughing and and and and it’s just it’s just just funny or any hard time in life when you’re going through that struggle what songs come through your head for me the song that
Always coming through my head is writing letters for my big brothers immediately when they thing is difficult I go there and I’m like this is nothing dude nothing diamonds don’t get made without no pressure you got to get it and sometimes if it takes to share a tear
With some of my ly Brothers I’m not ashamed I’ve had moments where you know I i’ had I’ve had to make that call and also been on other side too I’ve had to have that ear for another brother and to your point what you additionally said we
Need to have safe space as men who do you talk to that you know ain’t going to do your dirty when you reveal something that’s that mean something to you something that’s vulnerable to you who can you trust you got to have brothers like that you got to have men you know
To help sh just keep your hey that encourage say you got it bro you got it I’m here if you need it I got it so no that that’s what process is for I’m with with r i don’t know what all of tells for these young guys but I do believe process is
Necessary I just had this conversation last night um my perspective isn’t too different from rodri’s um I believe that anything that’s worth something needs to be worked hard for um I like it to a Capstone project right like like for work or for a degree or something like that it’s not about how
Long you pledge or how hard you pledge it’s about the quality right the information you know you to devel that love for the bond right through the work so that’s my I’ve seen it both ways I’ve seen it I’ve seen guys who have played real real hard and then when they
When they’re done They don’t serve the threat at all right they don’t they don’t pay dues at all right they don’t in Inspire anybody at all other than coming to the homecoming and say I pledged for 10 years you know what I’m saying so you know okay your life but you gota have
Something you can give to somebody else right you got to pass that down to the Next Generation right of of young brothers or down to the small kids who see you doing that work and an are inspired in a great way okay and for the brothers who didn’t
Finish the process if they Dro you know uh that means that they didn’t allow themselves to to to form and make a connection they were still operating as an individual and we all won you know so the respect factor for me would be out the window not because you didn’t finish process but
Because you was never a part of the process because you kep seeing yourself as an individual instead of seeing us as one that’s right that’s pretty deep man no most definitely most definitely brothers so my last question to go ahead to wrap everything up so what would y’s finals
Words be you know for the viewers that’s watching you know what what kind of advice y’all can give them um it could be you know U pledge and wise or it can be just you know full-blown collegewise of what you see nowadays you want start take it out
First D yeah go ahead JT I’ll give difference toor I’m getting my thoughts together well you want to start it um I I would say don’t let social media uh distort reality uh get to know the members get to know more about what they’re what they’re doing because one
Of the things that uh that I knew would going into my interview that I would probably get asked which was the basic question which is you know why do you want to be a member and I always said that if I would be on the other side if
I POS that question you cannot say for the Brotherhood no you better pick something else because at the end of the day that’s going to come that should come with the with the process but but formulate what it is that you’re here for and how you’re going to be able to
Benefit the organization as a whole and then go from there uh but I I want people to know that you know joining an organization in particular cap outside Fraternity Incorporated is unlike any other organization I say that because if we go back to the basics of what the St
Types whenever someone said to me that you look like a Capper I knew what that meant and so so so it made me have to step my game up in regards to knowing that you know what somebody paid me a compliment in a way that you don’t hear other organizations get that same
Compliment because they say if you look like ioda you might want to start fighting uh no sh but U but you know I take that with respect I’m just saying you know so cuz my best friend her mom told me when you get the preview you
Play as a Capper you better play as Capper because you look like a kapper and looking like it and then seeing what it looks like are two different things because them brothers were making moves and doing things to help others and so I really hope that you know people take
Into account that you’re becoming a part of history number one and number two that you’re there to do service always keep service in the Forefront and um and everything you do and then if you’re blessed to have a line like I have they’re gonna be there with you from
From the beginning till you reach those golden shows okay y’all got y’all words together y y’all good now we good everybody on brother will now that’s we gonna do what hey I guess it’s JT try to show me some difference uh why we got to be older brothers off
The line but uh uh I I would agree with what he just said too as well I mean I I’ve over the years I’ve had situations where that have challenged on both end you kind of get so spoiled by your own individual chapter I mean this
Is a swack when you think about all the about the strong chapters that down here in the swack and Southwest Province man it’s like so you kind of get spoiled in those individuals then over years past you kind of go through things and you
Learn and I will say this too a at a graduate level I saw individuals that I thought didn’t weren’t living out our principles and it kind of rubbed me the wrong way and and I had to just do some self check for a couple years there
Because I was like man this is what C has become and it bothered me and I I I had times on uh as some soul searching I I I spoke right with with Myan Brothers we had some very serious talks because I think about as many good experiences we
Having I was uh just I don’t know I I I don’t know what all other other guys processes words but it was so much frauding it was so much fakery it was so much I’m just going to shimmy I they individuals and I just happened to keep
Com across with just so void of substance I was like dang in college a lot of my saying spring 96 dudes have changed the world I see guys on news all from from DC to all kind of level I’m like that’s my saying but somewhere after that at the gradual level I was
Seeing guys I’m like man I’m not seeing that same kind of situation and it did kind of bother me for a little bit but thank goodness talking to Milan brothers and we realize man um you are what you put into it you have the ability to take
To affect change as an individual so if I come across those brothers who are just leaning on the shield as a brother I need to have have a conversation with him on the side and say what about the work at hand how’s your family life do
See every one of my line Brothers when I see their kids I know they are they rais their kids right because their kids respect them and they move operate with the love you know the tree by the fruit it Bears so I can look at my brother and
Say yeah you biased because these your ly Brothers but I see how others respond around them I’m like no that’s them it’s that kind of mindset how we all can kind of interact with one another make each other stronger we can’t run away from those who we feel like are lacking or
Who are just leaning on the shield we got to call them to the carpet we need to call them to the mat and say Hey you can do better and you you must do better if you GNA be hanging around me and that’s how we all get better to
Collectively so I think that for me is like when people say they just gonna join what are you joining for are you just joining so you can be in a video uh slapping your knees and shaking elbows I mean come on man are you gonna really do
Something what are you achieving in your life that says you’re better and when I look at them I mean again this not to just blow them up but literally we would just every one of them has something that’s so special about them even the ones who quieted and Reserve you’re like
What you you district attorney now what like brothers are always doing something and I love it so I challenge any new guy who’s interested to say you can make your field there you don’t have to be like anybody else but come in there be prepared to work and put your energy to
It my have my special have to be Kanan initially because I was already SJ president but they knew we love Kanan because like will said we had been waiting for years we hit the ground running I knew the step team was gonna be there well we won a lot of shows well
I took that information after after I graduated I started a mentoring program and what do you know those kids won and were undefeated for three years cap was no success and we no winning that’s what I want to be about continue to to to to infuse that thing and I hope that
Anybody who wants to join has that mindset of growth be different I’m sorry I’m get a little hype there get a little hype there yes sir most definitely most definitely man yeah my brother’s touched on cap side things of that nature so for me I’m GNA
Say trying to come in you need to understand like they said what you want to do what you want to bring capiz what you make of it right uh make kide don’t let kide make you right you need to make sure that you come in and you’re G to work you’re
Going to work for the Frat you’re going to work for the community you’re G to get back to the community that’s one thing we always do we love to get back we love the youth we love to bring them up and see them go off and do great
Things that’s for me the main purpose that I strive for is to give back always I was blessed coming up I going into the young age I was going down the wrong path and a noop St steered me right that’s one of the reason why I join kide because if
That nuke didn’t take his time to help me there’s no telling where I would be and because of that I am in a great blessed state in my life and I got to give that back I got to pass that on to my children children to my cousins to
Young men I don’t even know young women to make sure that they go off and do great things that’s what cide means to me definitely yeah you you know the first time I really questioned my resume is when I lined it up against all these other guys on my line because you know
They had been there four or five years already and I was a sophomore um so I got I question myself a little bit I’m like man do I belong with them right and then I thought about it man like hell yeah they need me you know ain’t nobody
Prettier than me or smarter than me so you know say you know I’ve never been a part of anything that hasn’t been successful right and so I didn’t need the Frat to be me right but when I joined I felt it was extremely beneficial because I’m one
Of those 25 pieces we wouldn’t have been the same if I wasn’t there so that’s right I can take pride in that and these guys keep doing amazing things and I feel like I’m I’m I’m a smart guy because I do rocket science but that don’t mean nothing to some of these guys
Who winning emies and you know they Roger is is is this and Darius does this will will is making all these shirts for us and all this other stuff and very successful I’m just extremely blessed to be around these men iron sharpens iron right and it is extremely beneficial to
Have these men in my life right it’s been a lifetime Bond that’s that I’m always cherish and if I can say one more thing I forgot something that was told us that I think this definitely needed and necessary for today’s generation of noops take something from every brother you
Meet yeah don’t write off a brother because he’s an older brother take something from him to add to your to add to who you are and and where you are as a as a brother and pass it on because there’s a lot that that needs to be
Shared and said so then you know exactly you know where where you’re going where you’re coming from but again knowing something that that this other brother may have to give to you is is is even that extra the extra that comes with being a member so take something from every brother you
Meet no most definitely man y’all definitely um gave us some some great wisdom today seriously man I mean uh after this y’all understand y I’m have to get y’ contact from everybody so just know be blowing your phone up because listen y’all y’all gave me too much man
Y’all gave me too much on the on the college side the Frat side and just life in general so I really do appreciate y’all again know seriously um if y’all don’t have anything else to say and everything you know again we do appreciate y’all gonna go ahead throw a
Nice little yo to all of our viewers on the out there and I was going to say we gonna go ahead and get it out y’ do y’all have some like little say y’all have like a a chant y’all do you know the 96 brother
Y’all said a lot I know y’all got a chant of course come on of course we do of course we do CU we for the mother Zoo anal hey hey last thing hey I got a shout out to Dem Marcus because our Lon brother was on us about getting our
Collective line together uh this why we created ZB spring 96 and anybody who wants to follow us and sees things that we do too they can also see us there but definitely want to give him a shout out after for that because he challenged us
To do it we were like some of us are so lowkey but he said no they need to see it so shout out to him no most definitely definely we definitely do appreciate it man Brothers man we definitely appreciate y’all again thank y’all for coming y’ time hey we have a
Great Sunday have a blessed Sunday y’all not doing anything else make sure y’all look make sure y y’all stay off that the food now I know y’all getting older and know y’all like to sit down way more baby you gotta keep it moving around get them KNE knees and elbows
Shoulders hey them people know 50 a look this good they know that no definitely Brothers man appreciate y’all again Mance Mee yall again man nice talk to y’all look y’all be good all right appreciate you new appreciate you thank you
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